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Round Table on Public Policy RNRF conducts periodic meetings of member-organization staff members and guests to discuss public policy issues and to meet with professionals and scientists involved in the process. Guest speakers have included: Cristián Samper, Director, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History; Louis W. Uccellini, Director, National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; David Westerholm, Director, Office of Response and Restoration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Harris Sherman, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Jay Jensen, Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Donna Wieting, Acting Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Jacques A. Beaudry-Losique, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Abigail Kimbell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Future of Life; Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute; Robert Donkers, Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission for the USA, European Union; Mark Myers, Director, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior; Marty Spitzer, Science Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; John R. McNeill, Professor of History, Georgetown University, and author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World; and Jeffrey Zinn, Congressional Research Service. Back to Top National Congresses RNRF conducts national congresses. These national meetings provide an interdisciplinary forum on critically important issues. They are attended by representatives of RNRF's member organizations, the non-governmental organization community, federal and state agencies, federal and state legislative bodies and others. Congress on Assessing America's Renewable Energy Future (conducted at the USGS Center, Reston, Va.) (2009). Sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Additional support provided by U.S. Forest Service. http://www.rnrf.org/2009cong Congress on Environmental Science Issues Facing the U.S. Congress and Natural Resources Agencies (conducted at American Geophysical Union conference facility, Washington, D.C.) (2006). Sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.rnrf.org/2006cong Congress on Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Impacts of Emerging Contaminants (conducted at American Geophysical Union conference facility, Washington, D.C.) (2005). Sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey. Additional support provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.rnrf.org/2005cong Building Capacity for Coastal Solutions
(conducted at American Geophysical Union conference facility,
Washington, D.C.)
(2004). Sponsored
by: National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
Geological Survey, USDA Forest
Service, and U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.rnrf.org/2004cong Federal Agency Personnel Trends, Budget
Stringencies, Challenges to Higher Education, and Evolving Roles of
Natural Resources Agencies (conducted at
American Association
for the Advancement of Science conference facility,
Washington,
D.C.)
hosted
by
and
conducted
in
association
with
AAAS
(2003).
Sponsored
by: U.S.
Geological Survey, National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, and USDA Forest
Service. http://www.rnrf.org/2003conf Control of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution:
Options and Opportunities (conducted at Radisson Plaza Lord
Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.) hosted by
Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture,
University of Maryland (2002). Sponsored by:
National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, and USDA Forest
Service. Additional support provided by: U.S.
Geological Survey, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and
U.S. Bureau of Land Management. http://www.rnrf.org/2002congress Promoting
Sustainability
in
the
21st
Century (conducted
at DoubleTree Hotel Janzen Beach,
Portland,
Ore.) hosted by the College of Forestry,
Oregon State University, and College of Forest Resources, University of
Washington (2000). Themes: 1)
Utilizing regional
approaches to land allocation and use, and 2) Identifying evolving
roles and educational
needs
of natural resources professionals). Sponsored
by: U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
Geological Survey, USDA Forest
Service, and U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Additional support provided by: USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service, National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, and Weyerhaeuser Company
Foundation. The congress report is available for purchase at the
"Publications" link. Reports of all congresses are available for
purchase at nominal cost. See our Publications web page for details.
Legislative and Public Policy Briefings International
Activities
The Sustained Achievement Award recognizes a long-term contribution and commitment to the protection and conservation of natural resources by an individual. The Outstanding Achievement Award recognizes a project, publication, piece of legislation, or similar concrete accomplishment that occurred during the three years prior to nomination for the award. (An individual cannot receive this award.) RNRF's Excellence in Journalism Award, established in 2001, honors and encourages excellence in print journalism about natural resources. RNRF seeks to advance public education and understanding of important natural resource issues through the dissemination of accurate and scientifically-based information about the environment. The award recognizes work by an individual, group, or organization for print media (such as a book, on-line report, or article/feature in a newspaper, magazine, journal, or newsletter). Sustained Achievement Award Recipients 1992 - Gilbert F. White, Boulder, Colorado Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients 1992 - Water Resources Education Initiative
(accepted by a consortium of nonprofits and federal agencies) Excellence in Journalism Award Recipients 2001
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Bay Journal, Karl
Blankenship,
editor; Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, publisher Recipients of Chairman's Award for Professional Service to the Foundation 2001 - Albert A. Grant, Public Interest
Member of RNRF Board of Directors, Potomac, Maryland Richard B. Alley is Recipient of 2011 Sustained Achievement Award
After completing a BS in geology (with honors, with distinction, Summa cum Laude) from Ohio State University (1980), and a Master’s in geology from the same institution in 1983, he obtained a Ph.D. in geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987). In 1988, he began to teach at Pennsylvania State University where he currently serves as the Evan Pugh Professor of Geology.
Alley has published more
than 150 refereed scientific articles, including ground-breaking work
in glaciology,
paleoclimate, and abrupt climate change. He also has actively
participated in
public education by testifying at congressional hearings, participating
in
congressional briefings, giving public lectures, authoring popular
articles and
books, and appearing on television and radio, including PBS (Nova),
BBC, and
NPR
(Earth and Sky). He chaired the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council panel on Abrupt
Climate Change, to advise the U.S. government on research activities to
address the possibility of climate surprises (Abrupt Climate Change:
Inevitable Surprises, National Academy Press, 2002), and then led
effort to publish synopsis for wider audience in Science. He
has provided advice on climate-change issues to OSTP, NSF, EPA, NOAA
and
IPCC. Alley has served as chair or member of numerous advisory bodies
to improve national and international research, including the Ice Core
Working Group, West Antarctic Ice Sheet and West Antarctic Ice Core Projects, NOAA
Abrupt Climate
Change Panel, and Polar Research Board.
The
award
was
presented
on December 8
at
the
winter
meeting
of
the
American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA. LEED for Neighborhood Development is Recipient of 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award
The LEED for Neighborhood Development green communities rating system, which launched in April 2010, is a benchmark for healthy green communities. It integrates green building into community development helping to reduce sprawl, increase transportation choices, decrease automobile dependence, encourage healthy living and protect threatened species.
LEED-ND was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in partnership with the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The rating system acknowledges the correlation between transit-oriented development and proximity to services, amenities and jobs to human health benefits and economic capital as it has been found by numerous studies. Such development is advocated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also promotes an array of green building and green infrastructure practices, particularly more efficient energy and water use — especially important in urban areas where infrastructure is often overtaxed.
LEED for Neighborhood Development projects may constitute whole neighborhoods, portions of neighborhoods, or multiple neighborhoods. Projects are often mixed-use, though small single-use projects that complement existing neighborhood uses may also use the rating system. LEED-ND is not a replacement for comprehensive planning but can be a meaningful tool to help promote sustainable land development if incentivized or used as a guideline when revising local codes and regulations.
To
date,
there
are
68
LEED
certified
neighborhood
developments
in
the
U.S.
and abroad and
each one of
them is positively contributing to our collective environmental
challenges on a
daily basis. In addition to the
technical and environmental aspects of the rating system, LEED-ND
heightens the
public's awareness of the benefits of green communities through its
robust
educational and professional credentialing programs. Learn more about
LEED-ND
by clicking on “Resources” at http://www.usgbc.org
Growing Up WILD is Recipient of 2011 Excellence in Journalism Award
Call for 2012 Nominations Outstanding and Sustained Achievement Awards Nomination solicitation will be posted early in 2012. Call for 2012 Nominations Excellence in Journalism Award Nomination solicitation will be posted early in 2012.
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The Foundation has
three annual
awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the renewable resources
fields. Two of the awards—established in 1992—were the first awards to
honor interdisciplinary achievements with an emphasis on the
application of sound scientific practices in managing and conserving
renewable natural resources. 
Richard B. Alley is the
recipient of RNRF’s 2011 Sustained Achievement Award. The Sustained
Achievement
Award recognizes a long-term contribution and commitment to the
protection and
conservation of natural resources by an individual. Alley has excelled
as a
climate scientist with a strong commitment to public communication. He
has
dedicated himself to advancing climate science in society and promoting
a
sustainable climate system.
LEED
for
Neighborhood
Development
(LEED-ND)
is
the
recipient
of
RNRF’s
2011
Outstanding
Achievement
Award.
The award recognizes a project, publication, piece of
legislation or similar concrete accomplishment in the natural
resources fields.
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